Adjustable electric fixture.



N. l. BERGER.

ADJUSTABLE ELECTRIC FIXTURE.

APPLICATION FILED JUNE 5.1915.

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NATHAN JQBERGER, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

ADJUSTABLE ELECTRIC FIXTURE.

Application filed June 5, 1815.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, NATHAN I. BERGER, a citizen of the United States, residing in the city, county, and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Adjustable Electric Fixtures, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to an adjustable electrolier, the object being to provide such an article, or a chandelier, arranged to retain globes of various diameters.

To carry my invention into practice, I form the shade support out of a plurality of pivotally connected members to which is suitably secured a yieldable band which in turn constitutes a rim upon which the globe can rest.

In the drawing, which forms part of this specification, Figure 1, is a side elevation of my improved device; Fig. 2 is a sectional plan view, the section being taken on a line 2-2 in Fig. 1 Fig. 8 is an enlarged sectional detail view, the section being taken on a line 33, Fig. 1.

As herein illustrated, my invention consists of a chandelier, or an electrolier, indicated by 1, consisting of ceiling fixture 2, from which is suspended a frame 3, to which is pivotally secured at 4 a plurality of members 5. To the lower end of said members I secure a yieldable annular rim 6 consisting in this instance of a coil spring upon which a globe 7 can be suspended. The spring or rim 6 can be secured to the members 5 in any desirable manner, such for instance as by staples 8.

By virtue of the action of the spring 6 the globe 7 will be tightly gripped and held in position. Moreover, the said yieldable rim or spring 6 will serve to retain globes of various diameters as it is capable of being increased or decreased in diameter. Should I desire to remove the globe 7 for cleaning, or for the substitution of another, I would spread the members 5, at their lower ends, moving them upon their pivots 41, which action would draw the yieldable rim 6 away frcm the globe 7, permitting said globe to be removed. be smaller in diameter, the yieldable rim 6 would contract until it contacted with the Specification of Letters Patent.

Should the substituted globe Patented Feb. 15, 1916.

Serial No. 32,295.

inserted globe. The same action would take place should the substituted globe be larger in diameter. In other words, the yieldable rim 6 will accommodate itself to the diameter of the globe to be held, the pivotal mem bers 5 being arranged to swing inwardly or outwardly. The movement outwardly will be accomplished manually, the movement radially adjustably secured to said frame,

and an adjustable yieldable rim carried by said frame arranged to retain globes of various diameters.

2. An adjustable fixture, or the like, consisting of a frame, a plurality of arms pivc-tally secured at one end thereof to said frame, and a yieldable rim secured to said arms at the free ends thereof.

3. An adjustable fixture, or the like, consisting of a frame, a plurality of arms pivotally secured at one end thereof to said frame, and a yieldable rim consisting of a coil spring carried by said arms at the free ends thereof, said spring being secured to said arms.

1. An adjustable fixture consisting of'a permanently secured frame, a plurality of arms pivotally secured at one end thereof to said frame and arranged to be freely moved upon their pivotal points, and a continuous coil spring secured to said arms at their free ends, said spring being unsupported intermediate said arms and arranged to support a globe.

Signed at the city of New York, New York, this 26th day of May, one thousand nine hundred and fifteen.

FRED F. lVEIss, ROBERT RICHTER.

Copies of this patent may be obtained, for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents, Washington, D. C. 

